You shouldn't be here.
Neither should you.
Just keep going. Don't be a damn - [hugs her] You are - You are anything but ordinary, Meredith. Now run. Run!
S3 E17Some Kind of Miracle
[voiceover] At the end of a day like this. A day when so many prayers are answered and so many aren't. We take our miracles where we find them. We reach across the gap and sometimes against all odds, against all logic... We touch.
S3 E18Scars and Souvenirs
[voiceover] People have scars, in all sorts of unexpected places. Like secret road maps of their personal histories. Diagrams of all their old wounds. Most of our old wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar. But some of them don't. Some wounds we carry with us everywhere and though the cut's long gone, the pain still lingers.
Alex is moving in?! To this house?!
He's taking George's room.
Why?
I was asleep just a minute ago.
Uh! And I was naked in the bathroom when Alex walked in. I'm lucky I didn't come out of the shower to find him peeing all over the seat.
And we're up.
That's Colin Marlowe.
Like the Marlowe transplant?
Like the greatest thing in cardiothoracic surgery in a generation. Dr. Marlowe. I'm, I'm Preston Burke. I'm a great admirer of your work, sir. Particularly the...
CColin
Yes, thank you I... Would you excuse me for just a second? [walks over to Cristina, group of interns backs away] Well, you going to give me a hug or what? [hugs Cristina, and squeezes her ass]
[about Meredith] She's tough. She tries to hide it. She's difficult. But if you make an effort, she's worth it.
TThatcher
You okay?
Not entirely. She's worth the effort.
[voiceover] What's worse, new wounds which are so horribly painful or old wounds that should've healed years ago and never did? Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we've been and what we've overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That's we like to think. But that's not the way it is, is it? Some things we just have to learn over and over and over again.
S3 E19My Favorite Mistake
[voiceover] Surgeons always have a plan. Where to cut, where to clamp, where to stitch. But, even with the best plans complications can arise, things can go wrong. And suddenly, you're caught with your pants down.
I mean, how do you know that it didn't feel so right, because it's God's plan?
God wants you to be an adulterer?
God got a virgin pregnant by magic. God is not playing by the rules.
[voiceover] The thing about plans is they don't take into account the unexpected, so when we're thrown a curve ball, whether it's in the OR or in life, we have to improvise. Of course, some of us are better at it than others. Some of us just have to move on to plan B and make the best of it. And sometimes what we want is exactly what we need. But sometimes, sometimes what we need is a new plan.
S3 E20Time After Time
[voiceover] A patient's history is as important as their symptoms. It's what helps us decide if heartburn's a heart attack... if a head ache's a tumor. Sometimes patients will try to re-write their own histories. They'll claim they don't smoke, or forget to mention certain drugs... which in surgery can be the kiss of death. We can ignore it all we want, but our history eventually always comes back to haunt us.
What was that?
That was my smug, passive-aggressive, limey ex-boyfriend trying to show me I picked the wrong guy.
Oh, I know, and I'm fine with it, as long as I'm learning something. I was actually talking about you. What was that?
You're going to have to put up with me being nice and sweet for a little while.
That'll be a nice change of pace.
Shut up.
That's more like it.
I came out here to be chief, and Meredith complicates that.
Huh. Well if this turns into an "either or," you pick the person you love. End of story. Look, all of this means nothing if you're alone.
[voiceover] Some people believe that without history, our lives amount to nothing. At some point we all have to choose: do we fall back on what we know, or do we step forward to something new? It's hard not to be haunted by our past. Our history is what shapes us... what guides us. Our history resurfaces time after time after time. So we have to remember sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.
S3 E21Desire
[voiceover] As interns, we know what we want, to become surgeons. And we'll do anything to get there. Suffer through killer exams, endure one-hundred hour weeks, stand for hours on end in operating rooms, you name it, we'll do it. The tough part though is reconciling this huge thing we want, to be surgeons, with everything else we want.
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